Park Lots 19, 20 & 21

Bathurst Street to Gore Vale Avenue

Park Lot 20: Palmerston Avenue to Manning Avenue. Granted to Captain Æneas Shaw, 4 September 1793. The York Report recommends that Captain George Spencer of the York Rangers be moved from Park Lot 23 to 20, and that Shaw be granted Park Lot 23 instead. Captain Spencer lost his right to Park Lot 20 in 1810 for non-residency. It was granted to John Macdonnell 20 November 1810, and he received the patent 26 November 1810.

Above: This detail of the patent plan of York Township shows the narrow 100-acre Park Lots stretching between today's Queen Street and Bloor Street. A patent plan was an important working document in the surveyor's office showing the land ownership. Perhaps as early as 1796, this plan certainly dates from prior to 1834 when the Town of York changed to the City of Toronto. (Patent Plans, “York Township”, [178?]-[ca. 1978], Archives of Ontario, RG 1-100)